You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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